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Finally finished reading Star Trek: Destiny book 3: Lost Souls by David Mack. The book continues on from the previous two instalments and finally resolves some of the storylines set up in the previous two. It also provides you with the answer of the origins of the Borg. It shows how 3 different Starfleet captains deal with the upcoming battle with the Borg. The back cover tells us:

The soldiers of Armageddon are on the march, laying waste to worlds in their passage. An audacious plan could stop them forever, but it carries risks that one starship captain is unwilling to take. For Captain Jean-Luc Picard, defending the future has never been so important, or so personal — and the wrong choice will cost him everything for which he has struggled and suffered.

For Captain William Riker, that choice has already been made. Haunted by the memories of those he was forced to leave behind, he must jeopardize all that he has left in a desperate bid to save the Federation.

For Captain Ezri Dax, whose impetuous youth is balanced by the wisdom of many lifetimes, the choice is a simple one: there is no going back — only forward to whatever future awaits them.

But for those who, millennia ago, had no choice…this is the hour of their final, inescapable destiny.

This book finally answers some of the questions the first two put in your mind – like who is the Borg? Why do they want to annihilate Earth? What is Particle 010 that the Borg want? By the end of the book you find out all the answers.

I found this an enjoyable read and really felt for the characters. Riker, who had to leave his wife and away team with the Caeliar so that he could help save the Federation, Picard who finally accepts others into his personal life and with the prospect of fatherhood finds himself again facing the Borg and an uncertain future for his child. Dax, who gets a baptism of fire in the role of the Captain of the Aventine and Captain Erika Hernandez who finally comes to terms with the changes that were enacted on her by the Caeliar.

The book also poses the question of when does genetic engineering go too far? Is it acceptable at all? Shows one of the outcomes of genetic engineering gone wrong as well. I do admit that I’m an avid Star Trek fan and so am somewhat biased towards the books but I’m also likely to then be left really disappointed if the book isn’t good. Thankfully with this book I can honestly say that it was a great read and I found it hard to put the book down.

On Earth, Federation President Nanietta Bacco gathers allies and adversaries to form a desperate last line of defense against an impending Borg invasion. In deep space, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Captain Ezri Dax join together to cut off the Collective’s route to the Alpha Quadrant.

Half a galaxy away, Captain William Riker and the crew of the Starship Titan have made contact with the reclusive Caeliar — survivors of a stellar cataclysm that, two hundred years ago, drove fissures through the structure of space and time, creating a loop of inevitability and consigning another captain and crew to a purgatory from which they could never escape.

Now the supremely advanced Caeliar will brook no further intrusion upon their isolation, or against the sanctity of their Great Work. For the small, finite lives of mere mortals carry little weight in the calculations of gods.

But even gods may come to understand that they underestimate humans at their peril.

What the book actually does is keep you guessing on how the Caeliar are tied to the current situation the Federation finds itself currently. You finally find out what happened to Erika Hernandez and the crew of the Columbia. You also find out how it is that Erika has managed to survive 200 years into the future and do get the feeling that she may well be the key to the Federation’s survival.

Needless to say I found it a wonderful read with lots of action but also an insight on how Erika and the crew felt about their “lifelong” guest status with the Caeliar. My only problem now is deciding what to read next – do I finish the last in the Star Trek: Destiny series or do I do a fantasy book and if fantasy, which one? For someone who prefers to procrastinate I need to make a decision.

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Have decided as a New Year’s Resolution that I post what I’m going to read next – otherwise it won’t get reviewed!. I’m currently reading Star Trek: Destiny book 2 Mere Mortals. Another book that I’m finding totally enjoyable to read.

Half a decade after the Dominion War and more than a year after the rise and fall of Praetor Shinzon, the galaxy’s greatest scourge returns to wreak havoc upon the Federation — and this time its goal is nothing less than total annihilation.

Elsewhere, deep in the Gamma Quadrant, an ancient mystery is solved. One of Earth’s first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has been found dead and empty on a desolate planet. But its discovery so far from home has raised disturbing questions, and the answers harken back to a struggle for survival that once tested a captain and her crew to the limits of their humanity.

From that terrifying flashpoint begins an apocalyptic odyssey that will reach across time and space to reveal the past, define the future, and show three captains — Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise, TM William Riker of the U.S.S. Titan, and Ezri Dax of the U.S.S Aventine — that some destinies are inescapable.

Picard, Riker and Dax have to not only fight the Borg who have launched an all out assault on not only the Federation but on all known species in their path but also solve the mystery of how one of Earth’s first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has found its way on a planet way of course with no sign of crew or how it got to be there.

You are left with trying to figure out the mystery along with the crew. The story of the Columbia and her crew is interwoven with the Federations current struggle against the Borg Collective. You are left wondering how the two events are linked. I really enjoyed the story and can’t wait to get on to reading the next one in the trilogy.